Rendering

Cairo rendering in Views only applies on bitmaps and thus only on views drawn by double-buffering.

To ensure Views uses Cairo rendering, set double-buffering to ’on’ in the IlvManager or IlvContainer holding the object to be drawn by Cairo.

Note: For some use cases, setting double-buffering does not force the use of Cairo rendering.

Printing

Cairo rendering is not supported in Views.

Drawing text

Views uses Cairo to draw geometric shapes, but not text. For drawing text, Views uses Xft.

To draw alpha-blended or anti-aliased text, see Text anti-aliasing and scalable fonts with Xft on X Windows.

Draw Mode

Cairo does not support any other mode than IlvModeSet.